Sunday, October 5, 2008

Counterpoints: Edward Said's Legacy

This bilingual English/French colloquium celebrates the works of one of the world's most compelling intellectuals, the Palestinian-American thinker Edward Said (November 1st 1935- September 23rd 2003), author of Orientalism, Culture and Imperialism, and Out of Place among other famous books.

The colloquium revolves around the theme of "Counterpoint," extensively used by Said as the interplay of diverse ideas and various "discrepant" cultural experiences. As Said writes in Culture and Imperialism: "As we look back at the cultural archive, we begin to reread it not univocally but contrapuntally, with a simultaneous awareness both of the metropolitan history that is narrated and of those other histories against which (and together with which) the dominating discourse acts." Following Said's legacy, this colloquium envisions a polyphonic, interdisciplinary engagement from fields as broad as comparative literature, sociology, anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Diaspora studies, musicology, and political science with a special focus on Middle Eastern politics.

FRIDAY 31 OCTOBER 2008, 6:00 pm.

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWADesmarais Building - Room 1160

OPENING WORDS

John OsborneDean of the Faculty of Arts, Carleton UniversityGeorge LangDean of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ottawa

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

MARIAM SAIDFollowed by the screening of the movieKnowledge is the BeginningDirected by Paul Smaczny(English and Arabic with English subtitles, 90 minutes)

• Prasad Pannian (Avvaiyar Govt. College for Women), Edward Said and the Politics of Subjectivity.• Ali Shehzad Zaidi (SUNY-Canton), The Notion of Discourse in Said’s Orientalism and Foucault’s History of Sex.• Stefan Hoffmann (University of Berlin), Said's Incomplete Discursive Constructivism.• Zainab Amery (Carleton University), Legitimizing Orientalism. The War on Terror and the Construction of the Enemy Other.

• Chris Richardson (University of Western Ontario), Orientalism at Home: The Case of “Canada’s Toughest Neighbourhood.”• Shelina Kassam (OISE/ University of Toronto), How to be a Good Muslim 101: Creating Idealized Muslims on Little Mosque on the Prairie.• Zahra F. Rasul (OISE/ University of Toronto), Racism in the Name of Feminism: Gendered Orientalisms, Cultural Politics, and Western Feminism post 9/11.• May Alhassen (Columbia University), Planting Olive Trees, Zaatar Seeds, and Hip-Hop Beats: The Reclamation of History, National Consciousness, and Humanity Through Narratives as Cultural Art Forms.

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